We have known for a long time that the lightly regulated pollution in American agriculture was deleterious to human health. Now we have some data to help us understand just how many lives this costs a
David Nye is one of our top historians of technology and he has a new book out on American landscapes and the greater political division over them. This is a rather lengthy excerpt that I found really
Turns out narwhal tusks are a bit like trees in that they can tell us a lot of data over a significant period of time. Of course, they certainly aren’t going to tell us anything we want to hear:
As actual Infrastructure Week is happening since we have a serious president who cares about doing things, we are having a real conversation about our infrastructure for once. As Justine Calma knows a
I was very happy to be interviewed and quoted for this excellent Ella Nilsen piece at Vox on the labor movement’s reticent on green jobs. To me, this statement, which I’ve used before, is
For my latest interview with recent authors, I talk to Jeff Sanders, a historian at Washington State University, about his new book Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West. We c
New Mexico is a very special place, in part because of its ecological fragility as somewhere livable, with a long and rich history of human civilization, at the age of a harsh desert. It doesn’t
Oh good god. A dozen dead Barn and Violet-green Swallows huddled together on the dusty desert floor of southern New Mexico. Numerous Western Bluebirds packed into a crevice in southern Color